國際圖書館協會聯盟會長Ellen R. Tise訪臺演講記要

Libraries are Critical Institutions for Growth and Development

國家圖書館很榮幸邀請到本屆國際圖書館協會聯盟會長Ms. Ellen Tise來臺訪問6天（2011年4月21日至26日），訪臺期間，於臺灣大學文學院以「圖書館為成長發展的重要機構」（Libraries are Critical Institutions for Growth and Development）為題發表演講，並與國內圖資界師生及對圖書館事業有興趣的民眾，進行交流。以下為Tise會長演講內容記要。

The debates on‘the information society’and“the knowledge society”have been substantial over the last decades or so. The core of the discussion was and still is the extensive contribution of information and knowledge to the growth and development of society. The levers of development, in the information society, are information processing, that is, efficient and reliable generation, transfer and retrieval of data. Drotner (2005) goes on to say that, in a knowledge society, the levers of development is the creation, circulation and appropriation of knowledge, that is, the non-material processes that in principle may take place anywhere and at any time. The symbiotic relationship between information and knowledge is an essential catalyst for growth and development of a community, a society and a country.